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THE NEWCASTLE ESCAPEES. SYDNEY, May 16. The two French prisoners who escaped from the El Kantara were tried at Newcastle Court for vagrancy and remanded till the 22nd. Both had been banished for life by the French Government. One, Tulop, was an airman in the same force as Carpentier. He is also a boxer, at Paris having beaten Criqui, who recently visited Australia. He refused to fight against the Bolsheviks on the Serbian front, went to Spain, and was charged with desertion on returning to France. He is an undergraduate, and has left a wife and children in France. The other prisoner, Sziber, is a Roumanian. He was banished on a charge of obstruction of the French authorities when in occupation of Hungary. After the armistice was declared he was engaged in military police duties at a railway station in Hungary and refused to hand over railway facilities to the invading army. It is thought France will probably commence ex tradition proceedings, and friends of the prisoners in Newcastle and Sydney are suggesting an appeal for funds to fight the case.
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Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 2
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183FRENCH CONVICTS Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 2
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